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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1937
Page
3
The Great Atterbury Brothers announce an upcoming tour featuring Queen the elephant. Described as the largest creature, she dwarfs other elephants and is praised for her spry, docile performance. The act promises a spectacle of modern circus sights for audiences.
Notice to contractors by Akron Iowa Town Council inviting bids to furnish labor and materials for one concrete reservoir at the Town Hall site. Bids due July 12 at 1 00 p m with certified check of at least 300 dollars. Plans and specs on file with Buell and Winter Engineering Sioux City. The town reserves the right to reject any or all bids. J Le Clayton Town Clerk. Sjostrom Bros advertisement present.
Local notes report visits from relatives and friends to Akron area residents including Mrs. Carl Weidenfeller, Mrs. Ruth Swift and family, Rev. Fr. Clerkin, and Dr. Carlos Kemper. It notes a drowning scare at Riversioux Park, a late June rise in marriage licenses, a power plant outage, and community events such as Union Creek Extension club meeting and local travel between Sioux City and nearby towns.
Akron town council will meet at Town Hall on Monday July 12 at 8 PM to hear objections to paving on Haskell Reedy Marin Second Fourth Fifth Sixth and Dakota streets. Property owners oppose the large improvement amid unsettled business and labor conditions and uncertain corn crops. A remonstrance signed by would be assessors will be filed at the meeting.
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